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Against this backdrop and with The Establishment and much of Business being questioned, employees are looking for more from work than just a job. They reject the idea of narcissism. They want to believe in the company they work for and be proud of it. They want it to have some ethics and beliefs and to feel valued. Yet according to research, a staggering 87% of employees are not engaged. Is the traditional command and control form of leadership to blame? Are the current MBA schools producing the wrong type of leader? Good at the ‘head’ part but struggling with the ‘heart’ side and thereby out of touch with the needs of employees today.
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Cox, M. (2020). ‘But I have an MBA!’. In: The Business Case for Love. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36426-7_4
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